Scarlett Letter Scafold Essay
In June 1642, in the Puritan town of Boston, a crowd gathers to witness an official punishment. A young women, Hester Prynne, has been found guilty of adultery and must wear a scarlet A on her dress as a sign of shame. Instead of killing Hester the courts decided to put her on a scaffold for a significant amount of time. The scaffold, an important place of punishment in the American colonies, is a significant setting …
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…symbol, and the connecting link between those two." Pearl asks Dimmesdale to stand there tomorrow at noon, but he says no for they will stand all together on judgement day. After that statement they stand upon the scaffold a little longer, until they realize they have not been alone. Rodger Chillingworth has been standing off in the shawdow, finally understanding the secret Dimmesdale has been hiding. "There was s singular circumstance that characterized Mr. Dimmesdale's
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